Undergraduate Research

APPRENTICESHIPS

Our research apprenticeships are offered as a contract course, Society and Genetics 196 (2.0 units, letter grade), for Juniors and Seniors.  Information about each research apprenticeship typically becomes available on this website a few weeks ahead of the quarter in which it is offered.  You are asked to submit a resume and letter of interest in the project;  during the first week or two of the quarter, project leaders may invite you for an interview and hire you.  SOC GEN 196 course contracts should then be filled out (go to www.my.ucla.edu and click on “contract courses” under the Academics heading on left of page), signed by project leader and submitted to the Institute’s student affairs officer (1308 Rolfe Hall) by Friday of the second week of the quarter.  Undergrads who are not enrolled in the Institute’s major or minor programs may still apply.

Spring 2013 – there are no projects available this quarter.

Contact: Rich Moushegian, Student Affairs Officer, UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics, 1308 Rolfe Hall, Rmousheg@socgen.ucla.edu.

 

Past Apprenticeships:

Winter 2013 projects:
1. Causal Understandings of Autism & Environmental Epigenetics
Fall 2012 – list of projects, no longer seeking applicants.

  1. 1. Sex in Sports
  2. 2. Phylogenetics and Biogeography of Neotropical Primates

Spring 2012 – list of projects, no longer seeking applicants.

  1. Oral History of Human Genetics
  2. Forensic DNA and Human Rights in Latin America
  3. Evolution of Anatomy in Mammals
  4. History of Sexual Genetics

Winter 2012 - list of projects, no longer seeking applicants.

  1. Cross-species relationships in sympatric Amazonian capuchin monkeys
  2. Phylogenetics and Biogeography of Neotropical Primates
  3. Cooperative Breeding in Patrilocal Societies
  4. The Art of Aging: Aging and Science in Film, TV, and Advertising
  5. History of Japanese Genetics

Fall 2011 - list of projects, no longer seeking applicants.

  1. Genetic screening and prospective studies of human populations 1950s – 1980s
  2. Oral History of Human Genetics
  3. Paternity, Fertility and Investment among the Himba of NW Namibia
  4. Forensic DNA and human rights in Latin America
  5. NanoBio + Art online social network
  6. Racial Taxonomies in Biomedical Genomics Research
  7. Evaluating Health Disparities in the Deaf Community

Spring 2011  – list of projects, no longer seeking applicants.

  1. “Water Bodies.”  Develop a hybrid social network that will be a resource of information and activism in relation to the state of water – globally.

Winter 2011 - list of projects, no longer seeking applicants.

  1. Evolution of bat coloration and roosting ecology
  2. Model organism newsletters, cooperation and community in genetics and developmental biology
  3. Genetic Studies of Human Population
  4. Cross-species relationships in sympatric Amazonian capuchin monkeys
  5. URC/SRP 99 project: Maternal effects shaping social network traits in yellow-bellied marmots